Sheep for Wool and Carcass
As you have opened your columns to a discussion on sheep diseases, their cures, &c., I would suggest to you that it would be advisable to treat also of sheep themselves, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1870
9 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Timely Advice to Farmers
IN placing this letter in its leading columns, the Sydney Mail introduces it with the following remarks:—"We are favoured with a communication from a valued correspondent,…
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JANUARY.—Sow on rich land, Cape barley for green crop, maize, millet, Swedish turnip, carrot, beet, mangold-wurtzel, &c. Sow sorghum saccharatum in rows three feet apart, and each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter and Butter-making. Causes of Bad Butter
THE causes of bad butter are numerous. Carelessness and ignorance of the true principles of butter-making; depasturing on poor land, or new land; bad water for the…
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THE letter addressed by Mr. Samuel Wilson to the secretary of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, and published in the Argus of Wednesday, December 15, shows that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advice to Young Farmers. How to Keep Yourself Poor
NOT taking a good paper. Keeping no account of home operations. Paying no attention to the maxim, " a stitch in time saves nine," in regard to the growing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Green Crops and Roots All the Year Round
THE possibility of supplying green fodder and roots throughout the twelvemonth, for the horses, cows, young stock, sheep, and pigs which every farmer should keep, and ought to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Baby-farming at Brixton
After the first hearing of the case against Margaret Waters and Mary Ellis for starving babies at Brixton, the police contrived to accumulate a vast mass of evidence, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Baby Farming in London.—extraordinary Revelations
During a discussion on Baby Farming at the Dialectical Society's rooms, 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, a statement made by Margaret Waters on Wednesday, and…
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